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| Soulja Boy Tell'em Hits The Clubs To See What Songs You Like -- And How You're Dancing Posted: 29 Oct 2008 05:00 AM PDT We caught up with the teen sensation on the L.A. set of his 'Turn My Swag On' video.
It's just that easy. Soulja Boy Tell'em hops right out of bed in the morning (or afternoon — depending on how late he partied and/or recorded) and turns his swag on. And when he's doing interviews, he turns his confidence all the way up. "These are the steps to coming up with your own dance," he said on the L.A. set of his "Turn My Swag On" video, directed by Skee.TV (Game's "Dope Boys"). "You sitting at the crib with your partners. It's about 12 in the morning. You go to the club. Basically, [that's] what I do," he said with a snicker. "Real talk." But he doesn't just go to the club. "We'll be at the studio," he continued. "I'll make a beat. I got my own club in Atlanta called the Excalibur. We go to the club and play new Soulja Boy music. We watch what they do. We take little bits and pieces back to the crib and YouTube it. That's it. Take your own songs to the club. That's how you know it's hot. All you artists out there, shipping your songs to the radio and you ain't getting the response you want and your album only does 10 or 20 thousand the first week, go out there yourself. Play it, and watch the reaction. You ain't gonna find no hit through the label." Soulja's next album, iSouljaBoyTellem, comes out December 16, and he's starting the affair off double-fisted. "The single is 'Bird Walk,' " he said. "Brand-new dance me and my boys came up with. Similar to what we did with 'Crank That.' 'Turn My Swag On,' it's basically my street look. It's just showing all my success from my first album. The first chapter of Soulja Boy in the music industry. I went platinum, 5 million ringtones. A whole lot of records I broke. It's a lifestyle record. Speaking on my success, showing how my life changed since I became a celebrity. It's basically saying, 'I'm back.' "This album, I'm speaking on a lot of stuff," he added. "I'm talking about the game, the industry. I'm still speaking on the club, the girls. I'm talking about dancing, money ... having fun. I'm talking about kids, Yums: my shoes and hats. My shirts and all that. I'm starting to see the other side of life. I'm maturing even more. ... My album is gonna be hard, though. For real." Bow Wow, Sean Kingston, Gucci Mane and Polow Da Don are the big-name contributors to the set. In addition to his Yums apparel line, Soulja Boy is also involved in a sitcom that's half animated, half live-action. Although he didn't have a title, he described it as " 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' but way better. We're in the future, we got better technology." And Soulja has been utilizing technology a lot lately. We all know about his viral-video back-and-forth with Ice-T. Get ready for the next opponent: SB's fired assistant Q. Allegedly, Q withdrew $45,000 from a Soulja account and was subsequently dismissed. Q claims he was strong-armed by gunmen to do so and told his side of the story in a video blog. Soulja responded by calling his onetime friend a thief and a liar and dismissed Q's story as a cockamamie tale. Related Videos Related Artists |
| Killers' <i>Day & Age</i> Preview: Hungry Like The Wolf, In <i>Bigger Than The Sound</i> Posted: 29 Oct 2008 05:00 AM PDT A close listen to upcoming LP, out November 25, seems to solve lyrical mystery of 'Human' chorus.
On The Record: Shiny, (Relatively) Happy People In a recent feature, London's Observer newspaper proclaimed that the Killers "may just be the strangest band in America." I don't know if I agree with that. Perhaps "the strangest multiplatinum, major-label band in America" is a better fit. Or even "the strangest band in Las Vegas." Regardless, the sentiment is correct. Over the course of five years, the Killers have been nothing if not unpredictable and rather unapologetically so. Whether they're masquerading as starry-eyed synthesizer aficionados with an Anglo sweet tooth (2004's Hot Fuss) or gruff-voiced Springsteen disciples with a thing for widescreen Americana (the '06 follow-up, Sam's Town), they've certainly danced to the beat of their own drum machine, critics be damned. So it sort of makes sense that on their latest, Day & Age (in stores November 25), the Killers have decided to jettison practically everything you've previously known about them and just make the best Duran Duran record in recent memory (or at least a pretty good David Bowie album or a decent Bryan Ferry disc). Produced by British dance retro-ist Stuart Price (formerly of Les Rhythmes Digitales and Zoot Woman, and most of Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor album), Age positively sparkles with studio sheen, a record full of crisp, echoey vocals, spaced-out synth squiggles, bossa-nova drum patterns and way more saxophone than you could possibly imagine. There are moments that recall early-'80s gems like "Rio," "Notorious," "China Girl" and "Slave to Love," if not so much in style as in sophistication. If nothing else, Age is an album of unabashed excess, of neon-lit late nights, of diamonds and dance floors and endlessly bubbling champagne. It is a record for the good times, even when times aren't necessarily all that good. Opener "Losing Touch" kicks off with a rumbling R&B horn section and some starry guitar work, with frontman Brandon Flowers inviting some unknown bon vivant to "caress me in your velvet chair" and "go run and tell your friends I'm losing touch." The song builds to a frothy climax before a winging guitar solo from Dave Keuning brings the party to a close. First single "Human" is up next, a shiny mix of galloping bass lines (a Price trademark) and smoky synth lines. By now, you've surely heard it, and while there's not much else to add, I will say that, having listened up close and personal, there is roughly an 85 percent chance Flowers is singing "Are we human/ Or are we denser," and not, as many believe, "dancer." Which sort of makes more sense, in some cosmic way, I suppose. "I Can't Stay" is next, starting off with more of that galloping bass and some twinkly harp, throwing some shuffly guitar into the mix and then tossing everything overboard with an insane saxophone line that takes this into Carnival Cruise Line territory. Throw in some calypso rhythms and a genuine steel-drum line at the song's end, and you've got a complete, couples-only Caribbean vacation. That's followed by "The World We Live In," which starts with a galaxy of strings and synthesizers and Flowers singing "Maybe I was mistaken/ I heard a rumor that you quit this day and age." The song opens into a great starry space, then collapses back in on itself with more horns and spindly, spy-movie guitars. "A Dustland Fairytale" is next, a somber, sepia-toned tune reportedly about Flowers' parents. Featuring plinking piano and mournful cello, it builds to a powerful, soaring crescendo, and coupled with Flowers' Americana-obsessed lyrics (plenty of mentions of "blue-jean serenades," "party dress"-clad damsels and "Kodachrome prints"), it's perhaps the album's only song that harkens back to the Sam's Town days. The opposite of that is "Neon Tiger," a shimmery example of glitzy, Baroque pop that — in its early sections, at least — recalls Taco's "Puttin' on the Ritz." The song builds to a string-filled climax, with Flowers summoning all manner of faux drama and bellowing, "Away! Away! Oh, run!" "Spaceman" follows, pure synth-rock candy and "ooh-ooh-ooh!" backing vocals. There is some fabulous robo-guitar work, a rather nifty bass/drum/vibraphone breakdown, and some ray-gun sound effects, and — it should be noted — Flowers puts on perhaps his best vocal performance of the entire album, cautiously and delicately exploring an upper range most (myself included) didn't know he possessed. The album enters the homestretch with "Joy Ride," which is about as unabashed an ode to '80s pop as you'll find in 2008. Starting off with "chicka-chicka-chicka" vocals (like Yello's "Oh Yeah") and wah-wah guitars, the song kicks into gear with Flowers singing about a bad-news girl in a "candy-apple red dress," then flies into absolute overdrive thanks to a lengthy saxophone section, some bossa-nova drums and more of that galloping bass line — a glitzy, goofy bit of dance-floor mastery that's only topped by Flowers shouting, "When your chips are down/ When your highs are low — Joy Ride!" in the chorus. Taking an abrupt 180, "Joy Ride" crashes headlong into "Goodnight, Travel Well," a six-and-a-half-minute exercise in ominous horns, desolate drum fills and Flowers at his absolute nadir, wailing, "The unknown distance to the great beyond/ Stares back at my grieving frame." The song does build to a rather impressively powerful strings-and-horns middle section, but given its length — and its depressing subject matter — it seems bizarrely out of place on the album (it also sounds a lot like Radiohead's "Climbing up the Walls"). Simon Le Bon would not approve. After all the dirge-ery, Day & Age wraps up with "This Is Your Life," which rides a bizarre, treated loop of vocals and chants, throws some electronic harpsichord into the mix and tops it off with an Edge-y guitar line. Flowers sings, "Your sky's full of dreams/ But you don't know how to fly," and the whole thing builds and builds until he's left shouting, "This feeling won't go ... wait for it ... wait for it ... " while the lights come on and a drum cadence ushers the last partygoers out the door. No word on the after party just yet, but I'll assume it's going to be fabulous. After all, living the high life means never having to come down, not even for a minute. And on Day & Age, the Killers go unapologetically higher and higher (mostly). At this point, they're never gonna touch the ground. Questions? Concerns? E-mail me at BTTS@MTVStaff.com. Related Artists |
| Jennifer Hudson Gets Support From Ashanti, Nelly, 'Sex And The City' Co-Star Mario Cantone Posted: 28 Oct 2008 04:52 AM PDT 'I just pray that she's strong and she takes the time to heal herself,' Ashanti tells the singer/actress.
The condolences keep pouring in for Jennifer Hudson, who lost not one, but three family members over the weekend in a triple-homicide: her mother, brother and nephew, who was found dead late Monday. "It's insane," Ashanti told MTV News on Monday night. "I can't even express it, the pain that she must be going through. I can't imagine going through that. I just pray that she's strong and she takes the time to heal herself. My prayers go out to her and her family. God bless." Since everyone grieves in their own way, Nelly told MTV News there's no real right or wrong thing to say to someone when you're trying to console them — just saying something, period, is what matters. "It's a rough thing to talk about," he said. "It's like, what do you say? You really don't know what to say to a person when you talk about death or losing a loved one." He wouldn't want people fussing over him, he said, but that's because "I'm a funny dude when it comes to things like that. I'm pretty much a loner, and I deal with my own problems and things personally." All anyone can do, he said, is "send your blessings and positive energy." "Hopefully, that will help her stay strong," he added. "Hopefully, there will come a day where she can move on from it. But I don't think she'll ever forget about it." Nelly knows — he lost his sister Jackie to leukemia three years ago. "It's hard," he said. "I still think about her every day. So I don't think there will ever come a day where she doesn't think about it, but that's good too. It helps keep the memory alive." Whatever path Hudson needs to take to mourn the loss of her family members, her "Sex and the City" castmate Mario Cantone said that people need to respect her choice. "If she wants to throw herself into her work, great," Cantone told MTV News. "If she doesn't, she shouldn't. She should do what she needs to do and not let anybody tell her what to do. I just hope she takes all the time she needs and surrounds herself with everyone who loves her so that she can get through this in her own way and in her own time." Cantone said that "life is so fragile and unpredictable and scary" that you never know what could happen to anyone. "Here she is — she's so sweet and lovely, she's brilliant, her album is on the top of the charts — and then this happens," he said. "I feel so awful for her. I just can't imagine what she's going through." However long it takes, Cantone said he's looking forward to the day that Hudson feels ready to sing and act again, "because she's just phenomenal." "I hope, if we do the ['Sex and the City'] sequel, she'll be a part of it," he said. "There's time. It's still early, and I'm hoping that happens, because that would be nice. I just can't wait until she's ready to come back and sing for all of us." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Britney Spears Gears Up For <i>Circus</i> Tour With Online Workout Video Posted: 28 Oct 2008 07:50 AM PDT Singer will perform new tracks at 'Good Morning America' birthday bash.
Don't just take Britney Spears' word that she's planning a major comeback, go to the tape. In keeping with her promise to give fans an inside scoop on her attempt to get her career back on track with her upcoming Circus album, Spears posted a video on her site on Monday of the grueling five-times-a-week workout sessions she's been sweating through to get in shape for an expected tour. "Now that Britney's bangin' bod is back, we've been wondering how she managed to get so toned so fast!" the site's webmaster wrote. "Well, no secrets here. We've got an exclusive video from Britney's home gym so you can see for yourself!" In the video, Spears can be seen working out with her trainer, the mysteriously named Seven, during one of their sessions. As her own "Gimme More" thumps in the background, the singer, wearing striped hot pants and a tank top, can be seen working on her lats, back, triceps, biceps and shoulders in the short clip that was shot in her home gym, which is tricked out with giant gilded mirrors, a coat of arms and more weights than the typical hotel workout room. According to the post, Brit has already moved past these sessions to "intense" dance rehearsals "many" times per week — with photographic proof, of course. The site also now features a video of Britney's dance troupe celebrating the 10th anniversary of her breakthrough hit, "... Baby One More Time," and news that the singer is going to celebrate her 27th birthday on December 2 by performing tracks from Circus on "Good Morning America." Related Videos Related Artists |
| Britney Spears' Dad Given Permanent Control Over Her Affairs Posted: 28 Oct 2008 04:30 AM PDT A court-appointed attorney for Spears says the singer does not object to the arrangement.
Britney Spears' father, Jamie, was given permanent control over his daughter's personal and financial affairs by a court commissioner Tuesday (October 28), The Associated Press reports. Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz made the arrangement permanent at the request of lawyers for the conservatorship. "The conservatorship is necessary and appropriate for the complexity of financial and business entities and her being susceptible to undue influence," Goetz said. A court-appointed attorney for Spears says the singer does not object to the arrangement. The conservatorship was set to expire December 31. According to TMZ's sources, Britney's camp wanted the conservatorship extended because it could make it easier for her to regain custody of her two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James. Spears agreed to give full custody of the boys to ex-husband Kevin Federline in July. The singer retains visitation rights. Instead of extending temporary power every few months, it made more sense for the commissioner to grant a permanent conservatorship and then lift it when Britney is deemed sound enough to handle her own affairs, TMZ reports. Jamie Spears first took over Britney's affairs in February, when the singer was hospitalized for the second time in a month for mental-health evaluation. During that time, the singer had a near-constant presence in the news for her erratic behavior and the pair of hospitalizations. The court decided to extend the conservatorship in July. Related Artists |
| Fall Out Boy To Attempt To Break Interview World Record Posted: 27 Oct 2008 11:47 PM PDT 'It's all a big adventure, even though this one's only kinda big,' Pete Wentz says of trying to complete the most interviews in a 24-hour period.
At least they're persistent. On Friday, Fall Out Boy will make another attempt to enter the "Guinness Book of World Records" when they take aim at the mark for "most radio interviews by a pair within 24 hours." Earlier this year, FOB's attempt to set a record for playing a concert on all seven continents fell short when bad weather forced them to cancel a planned trip to Antarctica. And, while this attempt will face decidedly fewer weather-related challenges, the task ahead of them is still rather daunting — the current world record is 57 interviews completed in a 24-hour period, set by New Zealanders Alastair Galpin and John Stansfield in May 2008. Still, FOB's obsession with world records — while admirable — does beg one rather important question: Why? The answer wasn't readily apparent to us, so in an attempt to get to the bottom of it all (and in some bizarre way, to prep them for the challenge ahead), MTV News e-mailed Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz to find out. "Because I read the 'Guinness Book of World Records' front-to-back when I was 8, and I put it on a list of things to do in my head — others include owning the G.I. Joe aircraft carrier and meeting MJ ... any of the MJs," FOB's Pete Wentz wrote. "It's nice to check some things off the list from time to time. Besides, like most things ... why not? It's all a big adventure, even though this one's only kinda big." So on Friday, at 3 a.m. PT, Wentz and FOB frontman Patrick Stump will take their seats at Premiere Studios in Los Angeles and begin doing interviews with radio stations around the world. The goal is to crush Galpin and Stansfield's mark of 57 interviews. This means that they're going to need to push themselves to the limit — something Wentz is more than aware of. In fact, he's prepping as you read this. "I have a big mouth, lots of teeth and am filled with hot air. Sometimes I feel like I could talk forever," he wrote. "In all seriousness, we've been watching YouTube videos of that Micro Machines guy for speed, then a bit of Sarah Palin to study up on how to answer any specific question with whatever vague answer we want." And Wentz knows that, over the course of 24 hours, they're going to have to deal with their fair share of stupid questions too — most of which will have to do with the baby he's expecting next month with his wife, Ashlee Simpson. "I'm sure I'm gonna get a lot, like, 'Blah blah blah, when's your baby due?' 'Is it a boy or girl?' 'Will it be friends with other celebrity babies?' " he wrote. "There will probably also be 20 about our name, then maybe a few about our new record. Some radio guys are pretty cool and have been asking about [the first single from their upcoming Folie à Deux album] 'I Don't Care' a lot, which is sweet. Hopefully, Patrick will do a lot of talking, because he's a pretty articulate guy when you get him going." No kidding. And though FOB are gunning for the interview record on Friday, Wentz wants everyone to know that this doesn't mean he and his bandmates have given up on the whole "seven continents" thing, either. After all, the only thing standing between them and "Guinness Book" fame is one lousy, icy continent. "I think 'Guinness' kind of feels bad for us and just wants us to get in the book," he wrote. "It'd be nice as a warm-up to get to Antarctica. I don't want to have a [Barry] Bonds legacy about it, you know? Where it's like you got in, but people question it." Related Artists |
| Jennifer Hudson's Sister, Julia, Blogs About Son Julian: 'He's Protecting Me' Posted: 28 Oct 2008 12:29 AM PDT Plus: More details emerge about the triple-murder and the only suspect, Julia's estranged husband.
A day after police confirmed that her 7-year-old son had been found dead in the backseat of a car on Chicago's West Side, Julia Hudson called son Julian King "my innocent baby" on her MySpace page. The undated post in the "About Me" section of what appears to be Jennifer Hudson's sister's official MySpace page features a message seemingly posted after the murders of King and the Hudson sisters' mother and brother on Friday. "When I started my MySpace, all of the above was true," Julia Hudson wrote, referring to a more easygoing, earlier post, in which she wrote about having one child, being "always bored" and loving to have fun. It also says, "My sister is Jennifer Hudson, yes the Jennifer Hudson." "I guess it's time to update this," she continued. "Now because I chose to do what was natural to me and love someone, it cost me my beautiful family. It cost me my beautiful, loving, supporting mother Darnell, my true blue baby brother Jason — I love you baby — and last but never least, my only son Julian, my innocent baby one that was sheltered from all the evil in the world because we loved him so much." Julia Hudson thanked all of those who supported her family while the search for Julian went on over the weekend, and concluded the post by writing, "His lil soul is at ease. I take comfort in knowing that Julian is with my mother and my brother and most of all the Lord, and now he's my angel, he's protecting me." As the family went into seclusion to mourn, more details about the triple-murder began to surface Tuesday (October 28). While police haven't ruled out the involvement of others, the primary suspect in the case continues to be Julia's estranged husband, William Balfour, 27, who is currently being held at Stateville Correctional Center on parole violations from a 1999 conviction on attempted murder. Officials continue to focus on reported ongoing disputes between Balfour and Julia Hudson and her family, one of which was over unpaid car payments, an unnamed source told the Chicago Tribune. The paper reported that Hudson's mother and brother had thrown Balfour out of their Englewood home — the site of their murders — in the past, and Julia told police that Balfour had threatened the family. A source also told the Tribune that Balfour warned Julia that he would kill her if he found out she had a boyfriend, though he kept several other girlfriends, including the pregnant one in whose home he was found by police several hours after the first two murders were discovered Friday. As previously reported, Balfour — who has not been charged in the murders — initially cooperated with police after they questioned him Friday night, but when they suggested he take a lie-detector test, he reportedly stopped talking. Though police have not ruled out the possibility that the killings were carried out by more than one person, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said Monday that it was not "a case of a stranger-type homicide." Sources told the Chicago Sun-Times that on the day of the murders, Julia and Balfour had argued after Hudson was told by her employers at a bus company that her wages would be withheld because she had failed to make car payments on a vehicle Balfour was supposed to be helping to pay for. Hudson reportedly complained to Balfour over the phone about the discrepancy during a phone conversation that morning. According to the Tribune, police believe that Balfour went to the Hudson house on Friday and fired shots through the front door, striking Hudson's brother, Jason, and when Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, came into the living room screaming, he shot her as well. Shell casings were also found in Julian King's room, though no bullet holes or signs of violence were evident. An autopsy was conducted on the child Tuesday, with officials concluding that the child's death was a homicide. The paper said that much of the timeline of what police believe happened came from an interview with one of Balfour's girlfriends, who reportedly contradicted his alibi and told police he was involved in the murders. Gunfire is so routine in the Englewood neighborhood where the Hudsons lived, according to the Sun-Times, that neighbors failed to call police when they heard shots Friday morning. A neighbor on the block where Balfour's girlfriend lives told the Sun-Times that he saw a man he believes to be Balfour park a white SUV — possibly the same one King was found murdered in — across from his house around noon on Friday. The man in the car then reportedly fooled around with something in the glove box and left the car to walk a half-block, glancing over his shoulder the entire time as he made his way to the house where Balfour was later arrested. Balfour, who grew up in the same neighborhood as the Hudson family, returned to that area in May 2006 after serving seven years in prison on the attempted-murder charge. He then reconnected with Julia Hudson, one of the three Hudson siblings he had known while attending the same elementary school, according to the Tribune. The paper also reported that during his brief marriage to Julia Hudson, Balfour appeared to embrace the role of stepdad, declaring himself a "proud parent" on his MySpace page and frequently taking walks with King in the park and taking the boy on fast-food runs. Related Videos Related Artists |
| Christina Aguilera Acquires Sci-Fi Edge In 'Keeps Gettin' Better' Video Posted: 28 Oct 2008 09:32 AM PDT The Peter Berg-directed clip features singer going from hippie chic to superhero biker chick.
Christina Aguilera's geektastic video for "Keeps Gettin' Better" debuted on iLike on Monday, and somewhere out there, fanboys are tripping over their external hard-drive cables to get screen grabs and create their own mashups of it. The clip was lensed by filmmaker Peter Berg ("Hancock," "The Kingdom"), and its "Minority Report"-meets-James-Bond-on-the-"Speed Racer"-highway-to-Anime-City vibe is sure to excite sci-fi geeks as much as Christina fans. In the first-of-its-kind exclusive for iLike, the clip from the singer's upcoming greatest-hits album, Keeps Gettin' Better — A Decade of Hits, has her traveling "through time and fashion in an homage to her 10-year career," according to a statement from her label. In the video, a blond, hoodie-wearing Aguilera sits behind a giant, retro-looking mixing desk with lots of pretty blinking lights and takes us on a quick-edit stroll through her many personas. She's a 1960s fuzzy-vest-wearing hippie filmmaker, a blue-haired "Speed Racer" wannabe and a masked, catsuit-wearing superhero with spark-throwing fingertips and a badass motorcycle. All the while, a cute Japanese robot dances along on the edge of her console as Aguilera controls the action by waving her fingers at the big screens in front of her. "I really enjoyed making the video for 'Keeps Gettin' Better,' " Aguilera said in the release. "Being an artist who likes to play around with different looks, it was a lot of fun to portray various characters within the same shoot." Keeps Gettin' Better is due out on November 11 and will be available only at Target. Related Artists |
| Jennifer Hudson's Co-Stars, 'American Idol' Colleagues, Friends Offer Support To Her Family Posted: 28 Oct 2008 08:02 AM PDT Barack Obama, Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, Queen Latifah, Sarah Jessica Parker send messages of support.
Jennifer Hudson's friends and colleagues have showered her with condolences and messages of support in the wake of the tragic deaths of her mother, brother and nephew on Friday. In a testament to the wide net the singer/actress has cast across the entertainment world in the four years since she first appeared on "American Idol," personalities from the worlds of music, film and television wished Hudson and her family her strength and love. "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell told "Extra," "I was horrified when I heard the news. This is an appalling tragedy. My thoughts right now are with Jennifer and her family." Fellow "Idol" judge Paula Abdul told the show, "This is a horrific tragedy and my thoughts and prayers go out to Jennifer and her entire family. The time I had to get to know Jennifer and forge a wonderful friendship with her while she was on 'Idol' was very special to me, and I personally can't imagine a greater loss for any family." Hudson's "Dreamgirls" co-star Sharon Leal told MTV News, "I got a bunch of texts about what happened, and I was hoping it wasn't true. I reached out to her, and my thoughts and prayers are with her. It's unimaginable what's she's going through. It's devastating news. I'm sending good vibes out to her, and I hope she gets through everything." Hudson's "Life of Bees" co-star Queen Latifah told "Access Hollywood," "When we heard the news of Jennifer losing her mother and her brother, our hearts broke for her, and we immediately began to pray for her strength and comfort and that of her family, as well as for the safe return of her nephew." She added, "I know the family is devastated and heartbroken and I hope that friends and fans and those who care about her just pray for her and give her all the support that she needs at this moment and for quite a long time to come." In a statement to "Access Hollywood," Hudson's "Sex and the City" co-star Sarah Jessica Parker said, "My heart goes out to her and her family in their time of anguish and grief." Over the weekend, Democratic presidential nominee and fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama said, "Michelle and I were absolutely heartbroken to learn about this unimaginable tragedy. We want Jennifer to know that she is in our thoughts and prayers during this very difficult time." Hudson's fellow "Idol" contestants sent their support as well. "My heart, my prayers and love go out to Jennifer and her family," LaToya London told "Access Hollywood." "I will constantly keep them in my prayers. Jennifer, stay strong." Camile Velasco knew Hudson's mother and told "Access Hollywood," "She was a great lady, real sweet and a great supporter of Jennifer's who was happy and glad for her daughter's success," she said. "Jennifer has great faith in God and is loved by so many so I hope that will get her through this ordeal. She has my love and support and I am here for her if she needs me." "I was completely shocked and stunned when I heard about this tragedy," Diana DeGarmo told "Access Hollywood." "I know how important Jennifer's mother and brother were to her, especially because her father was never in the picture. They were so nice and so pleasant. Jennifer always spoke about her mom, how close they were and how much of a 'big sister' role her mom played in her life." Reps for Beyoncé, who starred with Hudson in "Dreamgirls," and fellow "Idol" vet Fantasia told MTV News that they have chosen not to comment publicly on the tragedy in order to respect Hudson's privacy. Related Videos Related Artists |
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